FWIW:

Only the name "Asperger's Syndrome" has been dropped. The collective set of symptoms and diagnostic criteria are in the DSM and there is no danger of the diagnosis disappearing. Just don't label it "Asperger's".

Apparently in some parts of the world (eg US) health insurers don't provide support because the word "Autism" is not in the name. If the label doesn't say autism then I guess it ain't autism. Go figure.

IMHO this is a particularly bad summary description.

In general, damages in Canada are limited to real damage. ie: your fender is damaged in a car accident then it is strictly body shop charges (assuming no injury).

A record company would have to show real loss which is typically the actual lost sale and not some imaginary extension to what might have happened. Criminal fines are different though but it is fairly well established that people are fined somewhat proportionate to the crime.

In other words, there is nothing new here with regards to not allowing disproportionate punishment.

A key element of education is teaching people how to think well . . . although apparently critical thinking is not well received in some jurisdictions by some political parties.

There is a body of research that indicates people's ability to reason is enhanced (and actual neural growth occurs) when we are exposed to new and diverse information and methods.

Math may be a useless life skill for some people but the process of learning it is important and leaves the student changed forever. This can be said of all subjects. We don't have to learn everything in depth but it is important to have diversity in education and not narrowly pipeline everyone.

The process of learning a subject that is a stretch for an individual is more important IMHO than the actual subject itself. I dare say that most of the folk I work with do not directly use any of their comp-sci or other university subjects. Most are immersed in things they learned as side effects (Unix admin or such) or things that they had to learn on the job and for which they had no prior training ( business analysis, project management, leadership ).

Somehow, struggling through an AI course in symbolic representation helps a person to become an excellent business analyst.

Go figure.

That said, there have to be alternatives to the educational factories of elementary-highschool and the prescribed jump hoops of higher institutions. There have to be advancement paths which do not arbitrarily cut people off who are otherwise capable.

From direct experience I know there is an advantage to a team when the members have a diversity of education levels and life experiences.

For_any subject where subject isanelementof all_subjects_under_the_sun
there_exists a_person where a_person isanelementof humanity

such_that

subject is_useless_to a_person
and
a_person in_some_way_trashes subject
and
a_person claims world_will_be_better_off

Consider as well that the fella is a poli-sci. ;->